Meeting on Southern Soil

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Meeting On Southern Soil
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Studio album by Norman Blake and Peter Ostroushko
Released February 12, 2002
Recorded December 8 - 10, 2000
Genre Americana, folk
Label Red House
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Meeting on Southern Soil is an album by Norman Blake and Peter Ostroushko, released in 2002.

Norman Blake is a traditional American stringed instrument artist and songwriter.

Peter Ostroushko American musician

Peter Ostroushko is an American violinist and mandolinist.

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Reception

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Writing for Allmusic, the music critic Chris Nickson wrote of the album, "Albums like this renew the roots of American music, bringing new blood (tunes and songs) into what is really a flowing river of history. To hear these two together is a sheer joy and a triumph of musical skill and love." [1]

Chris Nickson is a British writer, novelist, music journalist, and biographer.

Track listing

All songs Traditional unless otherwise noted.

  1. "Blackberry Blossom" – 3:37
  2. "Rise When the Rooster Crows " – 3:14
  3. "President Richard Milhous Nixon's Hornpipe" (Ostroushko) – 3:17
  4. "Blake's Railroad Blues" (Blake) – 8:45
  5. "Muddy Creek" – 2:59
  6. "Little Bessie" – 6:03
  7. "Chickamauga" (Ostroushko) – 4:03
  8. "Only a Bunch of Violets" – 4:33
  9. "Oklahoma Redbird" – 2:44
  10. "I Cannot Call Her Mother" – 3:46
  11. "Marjorie's Waltz #3" (Ostroushko) – 6:52
  12. "The Old Hickory Cane" – 3:19
  13. "Oh Death" – 4:53
  14. "Mandolin Medley: Caperton Ferry/Ruins of Richmond/Valley Head" (Blake) – 4:58
  15. "The Little Log Hut in the Lane" – 2:40
  16. "Christmas Eve Is Coming, Anna" (Ostroushko) – 3:04

Personnel

Guitar fretted string instrument

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings. It is typically played with both hands by strumming or plucking the strings with either a guitar pick or the finger(s)/fingernails of one hand, while simultaneously fretting with the fingers of the other hand. The sound of the vibrating strings is projected either acoustically, by means of the hollow chamber of the guitar, or through an electrical amplifier and a speaker.

Mandolin musical instrument in the lute family (plucked, or strummed)

A mandolin is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is usually plucked with a plectrum or "pick". It commonly has four courses of doubled metal strings tuned in unison, although five and six course versions also exist. The courses are normally tuned in a succession of perfect fifths. It is the soprano member of a family that includes the mandola, octave mandolin, mandocello and mandobass.

Fiddle musical instrument

A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin. It is a colloquial term for the violin, used by players in all genres including classical music. Although violins and fiddles are essentially synonymous, the style of the music played may determine specific construction differences between fiddles and classical violins. For example, fiddles may optionally be set up with a bridge with a flatter arch to reduce the range of bow-arm motion needed for techniques such as the double shuffle, a form of bariolage involving rapid alternation between pairs of adjacent strings. To produce a "brighter" tone, compared to the deeper tones of gut or synthetic core strings, fiddlers often use steel strings. The fiddle is part of many traditional (folk) styles, which are typically aural traditions—taught 'by ear' rather than via written music. Fiddling refers to the act of playing the fiddle, and fiddlers are musicians that play it.

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References

  1. 1 2 Nickson, Chris. "Meeting on Southern Soil > Review". Allmusic . Retrieved June 28, 2011.